"Anyone there?"
"I'm a police officer!"
The voices from outside eased everyone's nerves a little.
Yang Defa looked at Su Chen.
He happened to know a little about this matter, too.
But at a time like this, the police were still coming after him?
"I'll go take a look."
Su Chen stood up, not the least bit flustered.
Changcheng was gone.
One refrigerated truck was hardly a big deal.
He was even a "lifesaver" to several people.
With quotation marks.
But still, could anyone deny it?
Outside.
Gao Yue smelled the food and couldn't help swallowing several times.
After everything that had happened, she hadn't eaten at her usual mealtime.
"Officer Huang, why don't we go inside for a meal?"
Fan Hui was shameless and simply wanted to go inside to eat.
She was hungry.
So it was perfectly normal for someone else to treat her to a meal.
"Keep quiet!"
Huang Wei glanced at Fan Hui.
Although he was hungry too, he did have some shame and couldn't bring himself to ask that.
Creak!
The door opened, and Su Chen walked out.
The headlights shone straight at him.
The space before the door was as bright as day.
"Su Chen, you refused to return the company vehicle. Now even the police have come to arrest you!"
Gao Yue tried to intimidate Su Chen.
"Exactly!"
Fan Hui immediately chimed in.
Su Chen had made trouble for no reason, and they had chased him all this way.
Su Chen ignored the two women and looked at the police officer. "Officer, what should I call you? Is something wrong?"
"My name is Huang Wei."
After introducing himself, Huang Wei explained, "I'm here about the refrigerated truck."
"Officer Huang."
"Changcheng is gone, and you still want a refrigerated truck?"
Su Chen was genuinely curious.
Logically, the officer knew something had happened to Changcheng, too.
Was there any need to keep hounding him?
Su Chen chose to speak with Huang Wei because he knew that sometimes women couldn't be reasoned with.
Hearing this, Huang Wei gave Su Chen a long look.
Su Chen really did know!
At the time, he had wondered why Su Chen was buying supplies.
Now he understood.
Had Su Chen known about the apocalypse in advance?
He didn't know either.
With the apocalypse here, what did these two women still need the vehicle and appliances for?
But.
This was what he had come out here for in the first place.
He had to see it through.
"How do you think we should settle this?"
Huang Wei tossed the question back to Su Chen.
He wanted to learn more about Su Chen.
Su Chen said matter-of-factly, "My wages, my deposit."
"I'll give them up."
"Of course, the truck is mine, and so is everything else."
There was no way Su Chen would return the truck.
The system was still counting down!
It was what gave him the confidence to keep fleeing.
"Su Chen, you're shameless!"
Hearing this, Gao Yue immediately stepped forward to accuse him.
"No matter what, I'm driving that truck back!"
Gao Yue refused to budge.
Fan Hui chimed in again. "That's right. I'm taking my appliances back, too."
Su Chen's expression was mocking.
He looked at the two women and said, "Are you sure you want to go back to Changcheng?"
At those words, both women immediately fell silent.
"What's wrong?"
Just then, Old Yang walked out carrying a pig-killing knife.
The pig-killing knife had been maintained with strips of cloth soaked in lard.
Its edge was gleaming white.
Cold light glinted off it.
The knife in Old Yang's hand immediately made the atmosphere tense.
At that moment, Huang Wei frowned too, his hand instinctively moving to his waist.
Police firearms were strictly controlled.
What he had there wasn't a gun, but a stun baton.
"Mr. Yang, didn't you say you didn't know Su Chen?"
Huang Wei looked at Yang Defa.
When he had questioned Yang Defa earlier, he had learned that the man didn't know Su Chen.
Was he now going to stand up for Su Chen?
"We just met."
"Officer Huang, you should understand too that there's no going back to Changcheng."
Yang Defa sided with Su Chen.
Su Chen's abilities had already been confirmed.
Of course, he still had an instinctive respect and fear for the police.
He deliberately tried to ease the atmosphere with his words.
Yang Defa's words continued to shatter everyone's illusions.
A rumor repeated often enough became believable.
If one person spoke of the apocalypse, people might doubt it.
Two people.
Three people.
Then it became hard to doubt.
Even deceiving themselves became difficult.
The people around him, including Huang Wei, were still clinging to the hope that the strange situation would settle down.
But what if it didn't?
Huang Wei fell silent on the spot.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Gao Yue glared fiercely at Yang Defa.
She refused to believe it.
Even though she had experienced it herself.
People!
They were always so good at deceiving themselves.
"Officer, Changcheng is all right, isn't it?"
Fan Hui looked to Huang Wei for help.
Now.
Huang Wei was one of the few people they could rely on.
Huang Wei, meanwhile, recalled the chief's final words.
He was in a difficult position.
Should he turn back?
Or keep moving forward?
Woof, woof, woof!
Black Dog suddenly started barking.
A shadow appeared in the darkness, as though someone was approaching.
"Who's there!"
Old Yang called out, but no one answered.
The person remained standing in the darkness.
"Trying to scare us?"
Zhang Xiaomeng was a girl, and she frowned.
She took out her phone and turned on the flashlight.
Thud!
Zhang Xiaomeng's phone dropped to the ground, and she looked at Huang Wei.
"Isn't that the person who died in the car crash?"
Zhang Xiaomeng cried out, "The body was left under the banyan tree! How did it stand up?"
That brief glimpse had let her see the person's face clearly.
That person had clearly died.
Yet now the person was standing again.
And hiding in the shadows, watching everyone with a pair of red eyes.
"The body was left under the banyan tree?"
Yang Defa turned his gaze to Huang Wei and repeated the words.
Su Chen had just said that mutations were likely to occur under banyan trees.
They shouldn't approach them carelessly.
And now.
Had something really happened?
"Wife, bring down some of the glutinous rice we have at home."
Remembering what Su Chen had just said, Old Master Yang called into the house.
He had only just turned around when the door shut.
Bang!
At some point, Gao Yue and Fan Hui had slipped inside the house.
They had even shut the door behind them.
Outside.
Only three men and two women remained.
Hearing the sound, everyone turned and exchanged looks.
How could they be so utterly shameless!
That was the first thought that sprang into their minds.
The door couldn't be opened right away, and everyone suddenly had no way to retreat.
"Gao Yue, Fan Hui."
"Open the door!"
Zhang Xiaomeng hadn't expected the two women, who had begged for help all along the way, to be so shameless once danger appeared.
She pounded hard on the door.
But...
It had been bolted from the inside.
Yang Defa looked at the two women, who had taken over as if they owned the place.
In his eyes...
A flash of anger passed.
They had gone inside themselves and shut his whole family out?
His wife...
Had been shut outside too.
"Xiumei, go into the woodshed first."
Yang Defa glanced at the woodshed and told his wife.
The woodshed had a door too.
With this strange change, it would be safer indoors.
After being exposed to the light, the Walking Corpse kept moving along the edge of the darkness.
It was testing the waters.
It seemed poised to make a move.
Old Master Yang looked at Black Dog beside him and got an idea.
"Blackie, come here."
He crouched down of his own accord and called to Black Dog.
Black Dog was remarkably perceptive and immediately ran over to circle around Old Yang.
"Don't move!"
Old Master Yang patted Black Dog's head, telling him to stay still.
Black Dog stayed perfectly still.
After soothing Black Dog, Old Yang said, "Lend me a little blood!"
With that...
Old Master Yang nicked Black Dog's backside with the Pig-Killing Knife.
"Awooo~"
Black Dog looked pitifully at his owner but did not run.
There was now black dog blood on the Pig-Killing Knife.
"Su Chen, how do I use this?"
Holding the bloodstained Pig-Killing Knife, Old Master Yang walked over to Su Chen.
At that moment...
Su Chen watched the Walking Corpse repeatedly test the waters, his heart beating faster.
It was his first time facing this kind of terror head-on.
Before this, he had relied on the Intelligence System to learn some information.
It had all been theoretical knowledge.
For a moment, he was at something of a loss as to what to do.
However...
When Su Chen turned his gaze to the Pig-Killing Knife, intelligence appeared on his retina...
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